France
Slideshow - Bluebell girls at the Paris Lido
Some 10,000 showgirls have high-kicked night after night on Paris's Champs Elysées since Irish-born dancer Margaret Kelly - known as Miss Bluebell - brought her troop from the Folies Bergères to the Lido in 1948. Alison Hird visited the venue and took her camera with her.
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Slideshow - Bluebell girls at the Lido
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Read Alison's article and listen to her radio report in Rendezvous.
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